External Print Button with IE and Edge

  • Resolved rwdrummond

    (@rwdrummondcoxnet)


    8 years, 2 months ago

    I so appreciate the external print button introduced in 1.6.7c. In Firefox it works perfectly. However, in IE, the print button causes the print window to open, but it closes almost immediately and never displays the print dialog. In Edge, it opens the print preview window, but the preview remains blank. I marked the button itself as “noprint” – interestingly, it disappears from Edge’s main window when the blank print preview opens. Here is the button definition:

    <button id="my_print_button" class="printomatic noprint" data-print_target="#print-me">Print</button>
[print-me do_not_print=".noprint" id="my_print_button" printstyle="external"/]

    The “#print-me” element is a div. I get the same results with “article” as the target. My site is still not publicly accessible. If you need access to review this further, we’ll need to wait a week or two until the site is published. Thanks for your help!

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/print-o-matic/

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  • Thread Starter rwdrummond

    (@rwdrummondcoxnet)

    8 years, 2 months ago

    Further investigation shows that this is not limited to the “external” button, but also occurs with the basic [print-me] shortcode. I tried clearing the Custom Print Page Styles I’d defined, toggled Use Theme CSS and Shortcode Loads Scripts – none had any affect. I did discover that a Pause Before Print value > 0 causes the IE print window to remain open, although still no print dialog. Control-P will open the print dialog, of course. No change in Edge.

    I went back to 1.6.6 and tested [print-me] – Firefox worked, Edge worked (but print window did not close after print dialog closed), IE will display print preview window if Pause Before Print > 0, but still no print dialog.

    Have I stomped on something?

    Plugin Author Baden

    (@baden03)

    8 years, 2 months ago

    there are some IE / Edge issues that need to be worked out (again, again, again)
    We have this on the to-do list, but have been busy with other issues.
    we’ll get to it, but not in the next week.

    Plugin Author Baden

    (@baden03)

    7 years, 11 months ago

    Is this still an issue with the latest version?
    If not, please try the latest dev version 1.7.3 available on GitHub.

    Thread Starter rwdrummond

    (@rwdrummondcoxnet)

    7 years, 11 months ago

    I believe it is all working now. I will try 1.7.3 and let you know. I’m going out of town, so it may be a week before I get back to you.

    Thread Starter rwdrummond

    (@rwdrummondcoxnet)

    7 years, 11 months ago

    Sorry not to reply sooner. This is working in 1.7.2. This is resolved.

    Plugin Author Baden

    (@baden03)

    7 years, 10 months ago

    Glad to hear it! Thanks for the feedback.

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